Quantum Science and Engineering

The Quantum Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering will be a multidisciplinary facility specifically built for the rigorous needs of quantum science and designed to create a focal point for the new research and educational efforts on campus. It will include ample lab space for new as well as for existing faculty members, as well as spaces to foster collaboration and cross-pollination. Given the existing strength at Princeton in the electrical engineering, physics, chemistry and computer science departments, proximity to these departments is critical for maximizing community and collaboration.

The facility will be carefully designed to meet the exacting standards for world-leading experimental systems in quantum science, as well as outfitting and providing space and staff for shared facilities in specialized high-end fabrication and characterization. In addition to experimentalists, the new facility will also be home to a group of theorists.

The Quantum Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering will be developed on University lands located south of Ivy Lane, north of Finney-Campbell Fields and Roberts Stadium, between Princeton Stadium and FitzRandolph Road.

As conceived in the University’s 2026 Campus Plan published in 2017, new facilities for Princeton Baseball, to replace Clarke Field, and Princeton Softball, to replace Strubing Field, will be developed in the Meadows Neighborhood in West Windsor.

The Racquet and Recreation Fieldhouse in the Meadows Neighborhood, scheduled to open in Fall 2024, will include strength training, sports medicine, and new team locker rooms and coaches’ offices for Princeton Softball and Princeton Baseball.
Princeton Baseball will continue to practice and compete on Clarke Field and utilize Caldwell Fieldhouse until the new facility in the Meadows Neighborhood is complete. Princeton Softball’s new Cynthia Paul Field is scheduled to be complete in Fall 2024.

Meeting University Goals

Provide an integrated environment for teaching, living and research

The facility will be integrated into the broader campus and will create an open and connected community for teaching and research.
Research and teaching will be made visible, and the design will support curricular and co-curricular activities with spaces that are warm, inviting, and inclusive.
Teaching spaces will support a variety of pedagogies and will be organized to minimize the disruptive flow of large classes. Space adjacent to teaching spaces will be designed to provide opportunities for pause, mentoring and building community. Related landscape space will be designed to accommodate teaching and informal meetings.

Enhance the campus's distinctive sense of place

The architectural design will be carefully integrated into the existing campus context, creating a contemporary building that is deeply connected to the “sense of place” of the Princeton campus that respects the beauty of campus planning traditions and anticipates the evolving campus.
The building will create a welcome and inviting academic home designed with world-class research facilities to foster collaboration and cross-pollination among scientists and engineers from disparate backgrounds but overlapping research.
Maximize openness, transparency, daylighting, and connections to nature with the use of courtyards and atria, while maintaining sufficient privacy.

Foster a setting that is welcoming and supportive and encourages positive interaction and exchange

The building will be designed to bring together theorists and experimentalists in an environment that encourages interaction and exchange of ideas.
Include informal areas adjacent to teaching spaces that support discussions and interactions before and after classes.
The lobby of the building should serve as an event space, connecting to the café and creating a cohesive environment for chance meetings and social interaction.
Interaction and serendipitous encounters are encouraged among groups with shared interests.

Create a climate that encourages thoughtful approaches to sustainability

Create buildings and spaces that embody the ethos of sustainability and consider objectives for an ethos of sustainability and energy efficiency throughout the design.
Create buildings and spaces that are optimized for passive design strategies.
Create gardens and landscapes that maximize and demonstrate sustainable, landscape-based storm water management.
Consider objectives for an ethos of sustainability and energy efficiency throughout the design.
Buildings should strive for high performance and energy efficiency; maximizing passive design; and incorporating active design features required to pursue EUI targets. The architectural design and graphic messaging should strive to reflect an ethos of sustainability and should encourage and educate students to be mindful stewards of the environment. The design should consider district energy opportunities.
The building shall support the University’s carbon neutrality goal.

Serve communities that extend beyond campus

The building will support new possibilities in collaborations between Princeton University and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and would attract the very best talent in the world from senior hires to starting faculty members to the best graduate students.
With such collaborations, the quantum institute would further strengthen the broader scientific community in Princeton.
The building will also support a highly interactive community of industrial affiliates and events aimed at connecting students and researchers to industry opportunities and needs.

Quantum Science and Engineering

Meeting University Goals

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